https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/russia-collusion-hoax-decade-deceit-and-advent-new-info
There's a lot to unpack there, some of it beyond my knowledge. However, I will look at this:
House Democrats in their impeachment proceedings declared that there was evidence that Trump withheld foreign aid in a July 2019 call with Ukraine’s president as pressure for an investigation of the Bidens.
Not true. Ukrainian prosecutors had already opened the investigation months earlier, and there was no mention of foreign aid being tied to a Biden investigation in the call.
First, the GAO has definitively affirmed that the President and the OMB (an executive agency branch) withheld aid illegally, and that to be legal the President would have had to officially follow certain procedures and disclosures as to the reason for withholding the aid--which obviously never happened.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/703909.pdfSecond, you can look at the "transcript" of the call between Trump and the Ukranian President. (
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf) In it, there was the classic and well-known point where the Ukranian President asks about purchases of Javelin missiles and POTUS replies with "I'd like you to do us a favor, though". The immediate ask was to have them investigate Ukranian interference in the election, which was a sort of fever dream considering it was Russia, not Ukraine, that did so.
But the very next statements were the Ukrainian President talking about how he viewed the US as a "strategic partnership" and then assured POTUS that all the investigations would be done "open and candididly". The very next statement by POTUS was directly about the prosecutor and Biden's son. And said "Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into that..."
The call between POTUS and Ukraine was July 25, 2019. The decision by the OMB to withhold the duly approved aid was July 25, 2019.
Isn't that... convenient?
